John Sava
Senior Investigator, Congressional Select Committee on China
JOHN SAVA is the Senior Investigator for the Congressional Select Committee on China, where he leads investigations and legislative initiatives focused on research security, foreign influence, technology transfer, and intellectual property theft. He is widely recognized within the US intelligence and law enforcement communities as a subject-matter expert on the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) technology transfer apparatus and defense research and industrial base. Mr. Sava previously served as a special agent/criminal investigator within the Department of Defense, where he conducted counterintelligence investigations and operations. Over the course of his career, Mr. Sava has been called upon as an expert witness and briefer on PRC-related issues to numerous congressional committees. From 2019 to 2025, Mr. Sava served as Co-Chair of the Foreign Influence Investigations Working Group for Inspectors General and law enforcement across the US Government. He is currently a lecturer on China, research security and due diligence, and technology protection at the Department of Defense Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, private industry, and institutions of higher education. Mr. Sava has received numerous national awards, including the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Counterintelligence Analysis Award (2021) and the DHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence (2019) for leading operations that prevented a foreign adversary from acquiring US government-funded research and technology.
